Quotes

Dan Jenkins with an instruction, no doubt profane, for Arnold Palmer.

State Fair of Texas - Dallas, Texas - Oct. 28, 2013

photographer Roberta Bayley, from On Tour with the Sex Pistols in Texas, up now on texasmonthly.com.

Batface Cupea

I’m laughing so hard

As written in the description: “100% of the proceeds from these art sales go to American Red Cross and their efforts in the Philippines for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.”

Oof. Ransom Center Art Curator Peter Mears offers a glimpse inside the newly acquired Ed Ruscha archive.

David Byrne, True Stories (via nicolefenton)

"At best, it must be like a pre-ghost in their heads. Everything in Language is a truth claim. So they need the similes to compare things to, to make true things that aren’t there yet, that they need to say. It might not be that they can think of it: Language just demands it."

Kerouac Alley, San Francisco (2013)

An early rejection letter from the Alfred A. Knopf archive shows that early in her career, Nobel Laureate Alice Munro struggled to gain recognition of the short story as an important genre.